Sustainable Value Chains in the Global Garment Industry

This Element covers dynamics surrounding innovation for sustainability in global value chains and identifies its key challenges.

Rachel Alexander (Author), Peter Lund-Thomsen (Author)

9781009217712, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 May 2023

75 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 0.6 cm, 0.15 kg

The widespread prevalence of economically, socially, and environmentally unsustainable practices in global value chains is a pressing international challenge. The way to improve systems and practices in the complex networks that characterize contemporary production processes is not clear cut. Finding solutions requires innovation. This Element examines the structures of garment value chains and explores how innovation related to sustainability is taking place in these chains. Furthermore, it identifies barriers and opportunities for innovations to break through and stimulate industry-wide change.

1. Introduction – garment value chains and sustainability challenges
2. Governance innovation
3. Incremental and firm-level process and product innovation
4. Towards a more sustainable global garment industry
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Subject Areas: Business strategy [KJC]